Amazing stuff Bingo. Very interesting.
First comment is about using draft value charts. If you use it as an historical measurement piece, it paints a great picture. Individual drafts though are small sample, and that method may be fool hardy. If you've scouted these players, it's not the 3rd pick that's 0.85 of the 1st pick anymore. Now it's Hanifin vs McDavid which is a different story.
Also, games played is the best surrogate for value we have, but doesn't really tell the whole story. If disagree that 500 games from Jonathan Toews isn't less valuable than 600 games from Bryan Little. I'm not sure there's much we can do there, but with the consideration when evaluating how much fidelity you want to place in the model with regards to your overall draft strategy
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